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In the background of the modern world’s conceptions, elaborated by a vast rational apparatus, there work manias which are generated by demonic forces.
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That which manifests itself as democracy in the world, appears as automatism, whirling associations, distractions and lack of selfcontrol in consciousness
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We are now in the fourth age, the Kali- Yuga or 'dark age', and have been so already, it is said, for more than six thousand years, that is to say since a time far earlier than any known to 'classical' history.
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In the past five hundred years a new type of man has appeared, who rejoices if something or someone turns out to be valueless, base or non-existent. Since only a degenerated type is capable of rejoicing if the world gets poorer.
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The »ideal« of dark tendencies is the person without world-views.
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That which manifests itself as democracy in the world, appears as automatism, whirling associations, distractions and lack of (self)control in consciousness
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If let’s say someone resurrected all the dead in the cemeteries, what would happen then? Would everyone convert »crying peccavi«? Probably not. They would say: »There seem to be things like this.«
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The path leading to chaos is not yet chaotic, only in its ultimate phase. For, though a chaos-creating force is creating chaos in its course, it necessarily gets structured into dark order of things
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Despite all its losing track, deterioration and dissipation, today’s world and the tendencies operating in it show one direction: the direction of nothingness
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Today’s man has gradually built a denatured world for himself: he has already been cut off from the supernatural, and now he is about to take leave of the natural
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Everything that is against the supernatural also turns, sooner or later, against the natural.
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As light magnetises certain insects, so spiritual darkness attracts the overwhelming majority of people
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Modernity is the way to conformity - the way to conformity forever in the direction of the lowest.
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Kali-yuga is not merely a state but a threatening and devouring throat.
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»Being devoured«: this is the fundamental word for what the rule of darkness realises; being devoured, which is followed by annihilation.
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Materialists, with all their boasted ‘good sense’ and ‘progress’ are really only beings in whom certain faculties have become atrophied to the extent of being completely abolished
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As soon as it has lost all effective communication with the supra-individual intellect, reason cannot but tend more and more toward the lowest level, toward the inferior pole of existence, plunging ever more deeply into materiality
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The more needs a man has, the greater the likelihood that he will lack something and thereby be unhappy; modern civilization aims at creating more and more artificial needs, and it will always create more needs than it can satisfy
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What the modern world has striven after with all its strength, even when it has claimed in its own way to pursue science, is really nothing other than the development of industry and machinery
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Disintegration can also be seen on the surface. The act of disintegration, however, is forever under the surface which makes it even more difficult to notice it.
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Modern culture is the culture of anti-spirituality and anti-traditionality. Consequently, it can only be considered as pseudo-culture, or rather, counter-culture.
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Those forces that manipulate the world, so that they can work undisturbed, want to accomplish two things: first and foremost that their existence be questioned, and if this does not work, they would at least like to appear undefeatable.
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Modern culture is the cultivation of man and the world in such a way and to such a degree that they are continually becoming more fit to receive the dark instead of the light.
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A machine is demonic for it contributes to the emergence of a considerable alienation between producer, production and product - and this is always accompanied by an inner alienation.
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Kali-yuga is not merely a state but a threatening and devouring throat.
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The present time as a modern time is the time of negative dominances even on the level of the most base profanities: for example, a young and healthy man feels bad much more often than good, he is much rather sad and gloomy than happy and joyous.
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In those days it will be wealth that confers distinction. The earth will be valued only for its mineral treasures. Dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence. The dominant cast will be that of the Shudras.
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Disintegration can also be seen on the surface. The act of disintegration, however, is forever under the surface which makes it even more difficult to notice it.